You may know that my new poetry book, Holme Fell: a sample of landscapes, a collaboration with the photographer Trev Eales, is now published. This hardback volume consists of many colour photographs and texts, beautifully presented to enhance the double reading and viewing experience. The images and texts exist in a loose symbiosis, with parallel truths and connecting paths between them.
Ian McMillan on Bluesky: ‘So good to experience this meeting of poetry and photography by@robertsheppard.bsky.social and Trev Eales from the always exciting Knives Forks and Spoons Press. “A crackle of purple twiglets/against ice-blue mountains, blue clouds:”’
Details here:
Holme Fell : Robert Sheppard (author), : 9781916590243 : Blackwell's
I’ve found that everyone who has seen the book is deeply impressed. I’ve tried to convey its physicality in the video on this blogpost:
Pages: TREV EALES AND ROBERT SHEPPARD: HOLME FELL: a sample of landscapes PUBLISHED NOW!
I
am now about to launch the book, as part of an evening with three other
wonderful poets at the Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool.
Wed 8 Jul, 7-8.30pm
Join us [they say] for an evening of live poetry
with James Byrne, Jesse Hill, Chris McCabe, and Robert Sheppard. Supported by
Liverpool Poetry Space, this event brings together four distinctive voices,
each presenting live readings of new and recent work in an intimate setting.
Books for sale!
Tickets
- General Admission: £5
- Concession: £2
Or Bluecoat |
Four Poets at the Bluecoat
Or https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/four-poets
About the readers
James Byrne launches his new collection The Banality of Power, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, published by Broken Sleep Books.
Jesse Hill is a transdisciplinary researcher and poet, creating ecologically-rooted projects shaped by seasonal cycles and our queer relationship with the breathing world. They teach Creative Writing at Edge Hill University whilst working on their PhD. A new book is out from Broken Sleep Books, Seedwork (On Breaking Open).
Chris McCabe‘s work spans artforms and genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and visual art. He’s the author of six poetry collections - the latest in Hedonism from Nine Arches Press, described by The Guardian as showing ‘the full muscle and gristle of lived language.
Robert Sheppard: me. Photographer Trev Eales will also be present.
Hope to see you there.
